Monday, October 02, 2006

Does Smokey and Blue work?

Bel Air, a super market here on the west coast, just introduced a new cheese to their gourmet cheese selection, Rouge River Smokey Blue Cheese. Sounded like an interesting combination so I had to try it. It was a little confusing to my taste buds to start with but they grew to appreciate it. It is medium on the "smoke" and has a nice balance to the "blue". This is a hard cheese to pair with wine. White? NO! Maybe a smokey Chateauneuef Du Pape? You be the judge...

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About Me

I am a Swede with 3 obsessions in life, besides my husband, and our dogs Odin and TJ. Those are wine, cheese and chocolate (food in general is of course a given). My obsession for chocolate has always been there but my obsession for wine and cheese started 6 years ago when I moved from Sweden to California. Santa Barbara was my destination and after several trips to the nearby vineyards in Santa Ynez Valley I got very interested and excited about the wines, and the cheeses, that seemed to be made for them, and down that road it is...